Crime scene: The day of the hunter

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The day of the hunter
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 649 ( List )
First broadcast December 3, 2006 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Niki Stein
script Niki Stein
production Inge Fleckenstein
music Jacki Engelken ,
Ulrik Spies
camera Nadine Lang
cut Elke Herbener ,
Silke Franken
occupation

The day of the hunter is a German television film from the ARD crime series Tatort . In the case of the Hessischer Rundfunk from 2006 with the Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger , it is about the murder of a caretaker and a subsequent hostage-taking. It is the 649th crime scene episode and the ninth case of this investigative team.

action

The caretaker of a residential complex is shot in the back yard while working in autumn with a leaf blower from one of the apartments. Fritz Dellwo is called to the crime scene and begins the investigation. From a resident he learns from which direction the shot must have come and that one of the residents, Müritz, is a hunter. Meanwhile, the coroner finds out that the fatal shot must have been fired from a hunting rifle, Dellwo storms Müritz's apartment. There Dellwo and his colleagues find Ms. Müritz tied up and gagged, she claims that her husband was taken away by her neighbor, Markus Paulus. Dellwo penetrates Paul's apartment and finds the fully furnished family apartment empty. In contrast to the rest of the apartment, Markus Paulus' study is completely neglected, in the room he and Fromm find a photo of his wife and their two children, Mrs. Paulus has been living separately from her husband with a new husband for some time.

A manhunt for Paul and his hostage is initiated immediately, but he is able to escape with his hostage. Ms. Müritz testifies that she and her husband called the police from Paul's apartment because of the disturbance of the peace, and that the officials ensured that there was silence. At about 11 p.m. the doorbell rang, Paulus wanted to apologize for the inconvenience. Meanwhile, Dellwo learns that Paulus had received training as a lone soldier as a military service member. In addition, there had been a real neighborhood war with regular police operations. Ms. Müritz also told the singer that Paulus had a bottle of champagne with him when he wanted to apologize. When asked who shot the caretaker, Ms. Müritz replied that the two men had talked about the hunt, her husband had given Paulus the gun, she went to bed around two and fell asleep until Paulus suddenly stood in the bedroom and threatened her with her husband's gun. When the singer objects that it was not possible that Paulus could have kept her and her husband in check with the gun at the same time, Ms. Müritz lost her composure again and asked for a lawyer. Finally, she goes on to say that Paul forced her to take a seat in the living room, that he reproached the couple and blamed them for the failure of their marriage because of the neighborhood quarrel.

Meanwhile, Paulus drove with Müritz to his ex-wife's house. Müritz pointedly notes that she was obviously pregnant by another man and tried to animate Paulus to kill his ex-wife with Müritz's rifle, which Müritz did not. Meanwhile, Ms. Müritz testifies that Paul was standing by the window and shot the caretaker early in the morning when the noise started in the courtyard. Police officers who patrol Ms. Paulus 'house due to the potential danger are noticed by Müritz' car, in which the men are on the road, when he drives away, a manhunt is initiated. Prosecutor Scheer assumes Paulus is a gunman. When the two men heard about the manhunt on the radio, Müritz offers to go and tell the officials that Paulus had released him, but Paulus forces Müritz to stay with him. Shortly thereafter, Müritz manages to overpower Paul and threaten him in turn, but the weapon is unloaded and Paulus can take it back and load it, forcing Müritz to go into the forest with him. The singer hears Mrs. Paulus, when she learns that Paulus has taken Müritz hostage, she loses her composure. She says that the Müritz 'complained about any noise from children and made their life hell. Müritz had sued for rent reduction, Ms. Paulus describes Ms. Müritz as mentally ill, she reacted allergic to the slightest child noise. Paul's marriage was already in a crisis, but the neighborhood dispute was ultimately what triggered the separation.

Meanwhile, Müritz tries to escape and draws the attention of a police helicopter to himself. The officers who are monitoring the situation from the situation center notice that Paulus is not shooting at him. The Belgian criminal psychologist van Boiten, who is currently visiting Frankfurt for a symposium, then doubts that Paulus is a murderer and that he shot the caretaker. Shortly afterwards, a police unit was able to free Müritz, while Dellwo happened to fall into Paulus' hands as a hostage. Unlike his colleagues, Van Boiten does not see Dellwo in danger because he does not believe that Dellwo is a murderer. It makes no sense that he should have shot the caretaker when he was just trying to win back a woman or make her feel guilty. Fromm then had the idea of ​​having the couple examined for traces of smoke. Paul holed up with Dellwo on a high seat in the forest, Paul urged a conversation with his wife. In the meantime, Mr Müritz is brought to the Presidium and questioned. After realizing that Paul has not been identified as the perpetrator for the officials, he reacts irritably. He states that Paul announced his visit the previous evening as a farewell visit. Singer confronts Müritz with the fact that Paulus 'fingerprints were found on the steering wheel of Müritz' car, this does not fit the version that Paulus permanently threatened him with a weapon, Müritz explains this with his state of shock.

Meanwhile, Van Boiten visits Ms. Müritz for an interview. She finally admits that Paul didn't play music that evening, but recorded children's screams on his system. She was so annoyed that her husband went down to Paul's apartment with his hunting rifle, but Paul didn't open it, a neighbor confirms this. When confronted with this, Müritz claims that his rifle was not loaded. Ms. Müritz finally admits to van Boiten that Paulus shamelessly asked them about their childlessness during his reconciliation visit. Thereupon Müritz threatened Paulus with a weapon, but he did not leave. Instead, Paulus took Müritz's unhappy wife, who suffers from her childlessness, in his arms and asked Müritz to do the same. Müritz could not do this, however, and struck Paulus with the gun to end the situation. When Paul came to, he asked Müritz to shoot him, and Frau Müritz encouraged him to do so. When the caretaker started blowing the leaves, Paulus shouted that Müritz would take it, but fight the screams of children, then Müritz shot the caretaker. Paul, meanwhile, after realizing that a conversation with his ex-wife is pointless, releases Dellwo. Paulus finally commits a suicide by cop .

background

The episode was watched by 6.5 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a total market share of 17.5%. The episode was filmed between March 8 and April 12, 2006 in Frankfurt , Koenigstein , Falkenstein and the surrounding area and had the working title "Amok".

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively as “fast, exciting and without ballast”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatort Fundus: The Day of the Hunter , accessed on September 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 13, 2015.
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